If fruit contains sugar why is it good for you?

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Best Answer: Good answers here already. In short: sugar is sugar. But fruit has fiber, which slows the progress of sugar through your digestive system, so that more of it is absorbed slowly in your gut versus all hitting your bloodstream quickly and then taxing your liver.

Not all sugars are alike. There is fructose (fruit sugar) and there is sucrose (refined cane sugar). Not to mention lactose (milk sugars).

The problem is that sucrose hits the body too hard whereas other sugars are slower to digest. The damage isn't always about how much sugar you take in. It can ALSO be about how fast that sugar hits your blood stream. If the blood sugar hits your blood stream too fast, your natural insulin won't process it fast enough to form glucose, which is the energy source your muscles actually use. That unprocessed sugar stresses other body organs.

It may technically be sugar, but it is NOT sugar. And also you gt fiber as well. The fiber and natural sweetness of fruit plus all the nutrients in the fruit is what makes it healthy. Sugar has nothing in it but that sugar. Or in many cases artificial sweeteners or high fructose corn syrup. that is used to sweeten everything because it is cheap and very sweet. Not good for the body at all.
And yet fruit is good for you since it is natural an will break down in your body like it is supposed too.

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They have good sugars that your body can process a lot healthier. This isn't a fruit, but for example, a small handful of almonds are going to be processed differently than soda or a candy bar. The liver will use the sugars in the almonds to make energy, while with soda or a candy bar, it will not be able to process those sugars correctly and make more fat.